From star gatherer to leader of humanity

The Moon Spirit Clan woman, whose lower body was covered by a burlap sack, sat diagonally on the ground, her eyes glazed over. It took her a while to come to her senses and look at Xu Bai and Xu Hun.

"Ah~"

Before he could even utter a sound, Xu Hun sealed him with his spiritual power.

"Why did you bring her back?"

The Moon Spirit woman before me had a graceful figure and exquisite features, making her instantly evoke a feeling of pity and tenderness.

"The Moon Spirit Clan women possess a unique talent; the aura they exude can calm the mind and spirit, especially when they sleep beside you at night, it can alleviate the loneliness of ascetic cultivation and cosmic claustrophobia." Xu Hun said, once again releasing the seal on the Moon Spirit Clan woman.

"This Moon Spirit Clan member is in the early stage of Qi Refining, which is perfect for accompanying Master. I have already sealed her dantian so that she can serve you when you are not cultivating."

The Moon Spirit woman, now freed from the seal, dared not move, her gaze constantly shifting between Xu Bai and Xu Hun.

"Settle her in, and let her stay here."

The relationship between the Moon Elf race and the human race is very complicated. Sometimes they are enemies, sometimes they are friends. In the news, it is always the human race that suffers losses.

However, Xu Bai could tell from the clues in these records that the Moon Spirit Clan was the one being bullied.

If it were an ordinary member of the Ghost Face Clan who had been captured, Xu Bai would have directly invited him into the Ten Thousand Soul Banner for a chat.

"Yes, sir. I'll train her properly." Xu Hun had a "you can rest assured, boss" expression on his face.

"Don't be afraid, as long as you stay here safely, you'll be fine," Xu Bai said gently as he helped the Moon Spirit Clan woman up.

"By the way, what's your name?"

"Livivi." Livivi's voice was filled with fear, terror, and despair for the future.

But to Xu Bai's ears, the sound was like the chirping of a lark, clear and melodious, giving Xu Bai a strange sense of relaxation.

Xu Hun left with Li Weiwei, and Xu Bai sat down cross-legged to prepare for cultivation.

Several days later, in a specially set-out weapon-refining hall, Xu Bai used his mind to control a magical furnace to refine Chen Iron, preparing to forge a basic magical flying sword.

Xu Bai has now mastered the art of inscribing psychic and spiritual runes, and is now able to craft some low-grade magical artifacts.

More than ten tons of Chen Iron were being smelted in the magic weapon furnace, and Xu Bai was practicing the basic skill of weapon forging: spiritual energy tempering.

This is the most basic step in weapon crafting. Only spirit ore refined with spiritual power can undergo spiritual transformation, allowing runes to permeate it.

Now, Xu Bai is stirring the iron concentrate in the furnace using the most traditional quenching method, quenching out the part that can undergo a qualitative change.

Compared to the spiritual power of ordinary Qi Refining cultivators, Xu Bai's spiritual power is extremely abundant, comparable to that of ordinary high-level Qi Refining cultivators.

With a mental strength amplification of about 10 times, combined with abundant spiritual power, Xu Bai only took three days to refine enough Spirit Transformation Iron Essence to forge flying swords.

Xu Bai used his mental power to control the Spirit Transformation Iron, transforming it into a flying sword shape in the void.

Before the flying sword had fully cooled and taken shape, Xu Bai separated a wisp of his spiritual power and quickly inscribed two runes of mental power and spiritual power in the void, imprinting them onto the sword body.

As two runes were imprinted into the flying sword, the internal structure of the flying sword began to change under the influence of the two runes. This was a reaction of the runes and the spiritual transformation material fusing together.

Just as the two runes were about to merge with the entire flying sword, a crack suddenly split open from the blade, and the flying sword, which was about to take shape, turned into fragments and scattered on the ground.

The fragments of the flying sword, having lost the support of spiritual power, turned into the most ordinary Chen Tie (a type of iron).

"As expected, a skill that can make money isn't that simple," Xu Bai said casually.

The first difficulty in crafting weapons lies in the runes, the second in tempering, and the third in fusing them with the runes when the weapon is formed.

Xu Bai examined the fragments of the flying sword, opened his personal terminal, and found ten thousand reasons why the Chen Tie flying sword had failed to be forged, and began to check them one by one.

"It's probably because too little spiritual energy was input during the tempering process, resulting in an incomplete transformation of the materials. Also, the timing of the fusion with the runes wasn't well controlled when the flying sword was almost formed."

"As expected, even with abundant spiritual power and strong mental strength, one still needs the support of skills."

In his spare time from rigorous training, Xu Bai became somewhat obsessed with weapon crafting. After familiarizing himself with the basic runes, this was his first attempt at weapon crafting, and unsurprisingly, it ended in failure.

After removing the slag from the magic weapon furnace, Xu Bai looked at the treasure weapon furnace and fell into deep thought.

"Don't focus on attributes yet. The art of weapon crafting is vast and complex. Starting with overpowered abilities is not a sustainable strategy."

After reviewing the reasons for the failure of this weapon forging, Xu Bai started another furnace.

In addition to his cultivation, Xu Bai also learned weapon crafting. Although it was tiring, it made Xu Bai feel less bored.

Time flies, another month has passed.

When Xu Bai was about to return, he found Li Weiwei standing there prettily in a maid's outfit outside the cultivation grounds.

"Master~"

Upon seeing Xu Bai, Li Weiwei spoke in a clear, crisp voice.

"You...you've finished your training?"

Xu Bai looked at the Moon Spirit Clan woman in front of him and thought of what he had said when he was chatting with those lone wolves. He remembered that most important people would have one or two Moon Spirit Clan concubines by their side.

"Master Soul has completed the training. From now on, Master will be my Holy Moon." After Livi finished speaking, she couldn't help but lower her head.

"In that case, you'll follow me closely from now on." Xu Bai said, taking out a small bag of spirit pearls from his storage bag and handing it to Livi.

"You can use these for your cultivation while I'm gone."

At the base's airfield, Xu Bai directed Xu Hun to load several types of crystal ore onto the magic weapon mining spaceship, gathering over 1000 million strands of spiritual energy, which would be just enough to pay off the loan later.

"Master, I can exchange these crystal ores for spirit stones at that coordinate," Xu Hun couldn't help but say.

"Is there any danger? How was the exchange conducted?" Xu Bai, who was about to board the spaceship, stopped in his tracks.

"The exchange method is very simple. As long as a specific signal fluctuation is generated at that coordinate, an unmanned spaceship will come over."

"Once the crystal ore is loaded onto the unmanned spaceship and scanned, another unmanned spaceship will deliver the spirit stones. The previous owner has already traded with it more than ten times, so it's very safe. I can handle it all by myself," Xu Hun said.

"Let's test the waters with some crystal ore first. There are a few spaceships in the base, go and make a trade."

After Xu Bai finished speaking, he looked at Li Weiwei beside him.

"Master, I've placed a restriction on Weiwei's soul. As long as she has any thoughts of rebellion or escape, she will be immobilized and unable to go anywhere." Xu Hun said with a reassuring expression.

"Okay~"

After the magic weapon mining spaceship left the base, it transformed into a streak of light and flew towards the Twenty-Five Shattered Star Cities.

Four days later, upon entering the blank area of ​​the 25th city of Shattered Star, Xu Bai saw a huge firework explode in the sky above Shattered Star City, engulfing the entire city.

Then came the second, the third, and the fourth flower.

Ten large fireworks exploded in succession over Shattered Star City.

At this moment, Xu Bai received a message from Xu Aifa on his personal terminal.

"Master, someone has found a spirit stone vein in the Shattered Star Sea, worth hundreds of billions of strands of spiritual energy."

"Who's so lucky~" Xu Bai's expression was complicated. If this spirit stone mine fell into his hands and he could get a few orange attributes, he might be able to take off immediately.